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New to open peer review? These 8 essential facts about open peer review will tell you everything you need to know about the Gates Open Research model.

If you’re new to the concept of open data, you might be wondering how you separate the facts from the fiction to decide what is right for you and your research. Today, we’re debunking some of the most common myths surrounding open data. We’ll cover all the questions you might be asking yourself: “Is data…

How can we achieve greater publishing equity for researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa and developing countries? We spoke to Jean Christophe Rusatira, Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, to learn what barriers exist and what he hopes to achieve as part of the Advisory Board for Gates Open Research.

Introducing Carly Strasser from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and a Gates Open Research Advisory Board member. As an advocate for Gates Open Research and data sharing, we were keen to discuss her views on open data, why it is important, and how to encourage more researchers to embrace it.

In May, Taylor & Francis launched Open Plus Books. A new book publishing concept that fuses the traditional print and open access books model with F1000’s open research publishing model. As a partner with F1000, we are delighted to support this initiative and that the pilot book is published on Gates Open Research. Read the conversation with Ashley Farley, Programme Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to learn more.

Stakeholder engagement is an essential part of responsible gene drive research and of Target Malaria’s work to develop genetic technologies to modify mosquitoes and reduce malaria transmission.
Introducing Delphine Thizy, Stakeholder Engagement Senior Advisor for Target Malaria. She provides strategic support for stakeholder engagement activities linked to the project’s research work on novel genetic approaches for malaria control.
Continue reading to learn why Delphine and the team created their latest Open Letter, published on Gates Open Research, and the future impact of this research.

In low and middle-income countries, many unique challenges remain to be overcome in pediatric medicine. As unique challenges require innovative solutions, Christopher Gill and his team at the Boston University School of Public Health (MA, USA) are pursuing many different avenues of investigation, with the overall aim of providing the greatest impact to the most vulnerable children and communities.
In this blog post, Christopher describes a few key areas of research before discussing the importance of open research in the dissemination of information and ideas.

Accurate information on causes of death is essential to estimate the burden of disease, informing health policies and tracking progress to achieve global targets, such as the Sustainable Development Goals. However, current estimates for the causes of death are inadequate at a global level, so the health community is trying to resolve this. In this blog, we find out about the unique study and the first assessment of its kind carried out by the team from the Institute for Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal), Spain. From the group, Clara Menéndez and Llorenç Quintó discuss their analysis to improve on the lack of precise information on causes of death in low income and resource-restricted settings.

2021 marks four years of publishing on Gates Open Research, now the 2nd most popular publication venue for Gates-funded researchers. In this blog post, Ashley Farley, Program Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the publishing activity for the last year and the platform’s growth in popularity and size.

In their Open Letter published on Gates Open Research, Ankita Mukherjee and Rakesh Parashar explore the effect of Covid-19 on the health workers in India. They reviewed the gaps in the health system and the challenges the workforce had to face, and from this recommend measures for policies to build a strong and resilient workforce in India.